Norman Vincent Peale Quotes

One of the most effective ways to overcome anxiety is to try to shift the focus of attention away from self and toward others. When we succeed in this, we find that the scale of our own problems diminishes. This is not to say we should ignore our own needs altogether, but rather that we should try to remember others' needs alongside our own, no matter how pressing ours may be

I think I have learned that the best way to lift one's self up is to help someone else.

Rather than being afraid to ask for help, remember this: When you ask someone to help you, you are actually doing them a tremendous favor by giving them an opportunity to feel needed.

Help people with problems, your problems disappear.

Your success and happiness depend on your willingness to help others solve their problems.

And sometimes to help them we have got to help ourselves.

Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, it's at the end of your arm, as you get older, remember you have another hand: The first is to help yourself, the second is to help others.

People must help one another; it is nature's law.

I want to say to you, Help yourself, so you can help someone else.

People must help one another. It is nature's law.

I always seem drawn to people who need help, and I've needed help, too. I've had to learn to love myself.

Don't waste your pain; use it to help others.

You will begin to succeed with your life when the pains and problems of others matter to you.

To me it seems that to give happiness is a far nobler goal that to attain it: and that what we exist for is much more a matter of relations to others than a matter of individual progress: much more a matter of helping others to heaven than of getting there ourselves.

To achieve self actualization, do good things for other people that you would want to be done onto yourself

We can be of little service to our fellows until we become disillusioned without being embittered.

In giving of yourself, you will discover a whole new life full of meaning and love.

We are all here on earth to help others.

I used to focus more on scoring. Now I take a lot of pride and pleasure in helping someone else do well.

If you help others with sincere motivation and sincere concern, that will bring you more fortune, more friends, more smiles, and more success. If you forget about others' rights and neglect others' welfare, ultimately you will be very lonely.

I like to help others and count it as my greatest pleasure in life to see a person free himself of the shadows which darken his days.

Doing nothing for others is the undoing of one's self. We must be purposely kind and generous, or we miss the best part of existence. The heart that goes out of itself, gets large and full of joy. This is the great secret of the inner life. We do ourselves the most good doing something for others.

We work on ourselves in order to help others, but also we help others in order to work on ourselves.

I think no human being can give more than this. Making life possible for the other, if only for a moment.

The only care That I shall share Shall be the care of others, And on the road I'll halve the load Of overburdened brothers. I rather guess It's selfishness That drives me to such actions, For in this plan I find I can Forget my own distractions.